Anyone using social media today who expects corporations to respect their privacy is naive. To be sure, corporations should be more transparent on how individuals can turn off certain functions, but being bombarded by ads on gmail or facebook or Amazon is just the price we pay for the services they offer.

I can understand people being more scared about something being done with their data and information - such as identity theft - but if privacy was better protected online, it would be far harder for people to steal identities in the first place.

This makes perfect sense. While privacy is an issue that needs to be contended with, the real expenseive propostion is having your information stolen and used unwittingly. Many victims of identity theft have to spend a ton of cash in order to untangle such a mess.

You are correct; you cannot stop the way people tend to get information. Sharing my personal experience, I bought a car recently and to see I was getting some information on different interiors I can purchase for my car. It was unbelievable for me.

Privacy should be the number one concern whether it's a hacker or a company or the government. I think the key is that privacy is the main concern. I'm not that surprised on the results of this survey. The effects of ID theft are alot more stressful and immediate than tracking. Also, am i the only one who doesn't think 1000 voters across the US is a big sample?

The real problem isn't the government, it's the corporations. Whenever I go to Amazon, it's absolutely frightening how much they know about me and my likes/dislikes. As voters, we all have control over the government. We have no control at all over the corporations, who ride roughshod over our privacy.

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